Jekyll puts on SmartyPants
I just released and deployed Jekyll 0.7.0 to GitHub Pages today. This release includes support for SmartyPants via RDiscount for Markdown files. To get all those nice curly quotation marks,…
I just released and deployed Jekyll 0.7.0 to GitHub Pages today. This release includes support for SmartyPants via RDiscount for Markdown files. To get all those nice curly quotation marks, em/en dashes, and elipses, simply make sure your Jekyll repo’s _config.yml contains the following lines:
markdown: rdiscount
rdiscount:
extensions: [smart]Then, push your repo to GitHub and enjoy some automatic fancy typographical elements!
NOTE: SmartyPants will only be active on pages written with Markdown.
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